◇ image via WikipediaRalph Towner
Ralph Towner is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Jack DeJohnette and Bill Evans. Those roots explain a lot about how Ralph Towner arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jan Garbarek and Paul Bley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into ECM Records, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Burton and Naná Vasconcelos, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 9 connections around Ralph Towner, reaching back through Jack DeJohnette and forward to ECM Records. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ralph Towner connections
Ralph Towner grew out of Jack DeJohnette and Bill Evans, shares an orbit with Jan Garbarek and Paul Bley, went on to shape ECM Records, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette and Gary Burton. 9 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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